Only a few minutes ago, we posted an article detailing the performance and pricing of AMD’s upcoming Kaveri APUs. Now we have new details regarding the specifications of two Kaveri A-Series SKUs – A10-7850K and A10-7700K.

AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K – The First Kaveri APUs

The AMD A10-7850K is presumably the flagship Kaveri APU for 2014 which would replace the Richland A10-6800K APU. The A10-7850K has four Steamroller cores and 512 GCN stream processors which bring its performance on a level equivalent to the Radeon HD 7750 in terms of graphics performance. The A10-7850K has a max compute of 856 GFLops (GPU + CPU) compared to 779 GFlops on the Richland A10-6800K APU.

The clock speed of the APU is maintained at 3.7 GHz which is presumably the base clock while Turbo clock would push the speeds beyond 4 GHz barrier. The GPU which is positioned in the R7 2**D series is clocked at 720 MHz while the APU itself has 4 MB of L2 cache. The GCN graphics die would feature 8 GPU cores which represent a total of 512 stream processors. The TDP for the A10-7850K would be set at 95W. AMD A10-7850K will support both Mantle API, DirectX 11.2 and OpenGL 4.3 and feature dual graphics functionality with the AMD’s Cape Verde based discrete GPUs.

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Next up, we have the A10-7700K which is another unlocked chip featuring the Steamroller core architecture with a max boost clock of 3.8 GHz and base clock of 3.5 GHz. It features 4 MB of L2 cache plus HSA features and True Audio technology support. The GPU side ships with a GCN graphics die featuring 6 shader units equaling to a total of 384 Stream processors clocked at 720 MHz. This part may possibly feature a lower TDP of 65W due to the cut down graphics die but still pack a mean punch in terms of performance.

The AMD Kaveri A10 series which include the A10-7850K and A10-7700K would be released on 14th January 2014 on the desktop FM2+ platform. The prices would be set around the sub-$150 range as just recently revealed. New information, details and performance benchmarks are expected around CES 2014.

Model

AMD A10-7850K ‘Kaveri’

AMD A10-7700K ‘Kaveri’

AMD A10-6800K ‘Richland’

AMD A10-5800K ‘Trinity’

Cores

4/4

4/4

4/4

4/4

Turbo Core 3.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Base Clock

3.7 GHz

3.5 GHz

4.1 GHz

3.8 GHz

Turbo Clock

4.0 GHz

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

4.2 GHz

L2 Cache

4 MB L2

4 MB L2

4 MB L2

4 MB L2

Unlocked Design

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Graphics Core

GCN Radeon R7

GCN Radeon R7

HD 8000

HD 7000

GPU Cores

512 Cores

384 Cores

384 Cores

384 Cores

GPU Clock

720 MHz

720 MHz

844 MHz

800 MHz

TDP

95W

95W/65W

100W

100W

Price

Sub-$150

Sub-$150

$149 US

$122 US

Launch Date

14th January 2014

14th January 2014

4th June 2013

2nd October 2011

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